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Biography Book Group

The group meets on the last Tuesday of every month at 10 am to 12 noon
at Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest
Members and members' friends are welcome, both men and women, and all ages.
Gold coin for refreshments. For more information please contact Donna Stewart on 6257 2299

Program for 2008

Tuesday 26 February - Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Tuesday 25 March - The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad.
Tuesday 29 April - The Himmler Brothers. a German Family History by Katrin Himmler
Tuesday 27 May - London. The biography by Peter Ackroyd
Tuesday 24 June - Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
Tuesday 29 July - Today we discussed Brenda Niall's Inaugural Seymour Lecture in Biography, 2005: Walking upon Ashes. The footsteps of a modern biographer. The Seymour Lectures were established by our own John Seymour and his wife. This year's Seymour Lecture will be by biographer Richard Holmes. See http://rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2008/seymourlecture/index.php )

Tuesday 26 August - We will discuss Heather Rossiter's Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer, a biog of Herbert Dyce Murphy. See http://www.janecurrypublishing.com.au/html/ladyspy.htm and http://www.suburbia.com.au/~anarensw/special/ladyspy/ladyspy1.htm
The book is available through Abe Books http://www.abebooks.com.au

Tuesday 23 September - Jennifer suggests that we discuss The Flower Hunter: the Remarkable Life of Ellis Rowan by Christine and Michael Morton-Evans (Simon and Schuster pbk). See http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4316522 .

Program for 2007

Tuesday 27 February - Two Lives by Vikram Seth
Tuesday 24 April - Leonard Woolf: A Life by Victoria Glendinning
Tuesday 29 May - Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi
Tuesday 29 June - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Tuesday 31 July - Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Tuesday 30 October - Georgiana [McRae]: Painter, Diarist, Pioneer by Brenda Niall
Tuesday 27 November - Father and Son by Edmund Gosse

Program for 2006
Tuesday 25 July at 11.00 am - Breakfast with Beaverbrook by Ann Moyal
Tuesday 29 August at 10:00 am - Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose
Tuesday 26 September at 10:00 am - White Butterfly by Colin McPhedran
Tuesday 31 October at 10:00 am - Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tuesday 28 November at 10:00 am - Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

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